The Life of a Homeguard In the following document, I will explain how difficult life was when you were working for the homeguard
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The Life of a Homeguard In the following document, I will explain how difficult life was when you were working for the homeguard. At weekends we often had training sessions including firing practice. They were in a field alongside a road down a steep hill to the south of a church. They were fairly rough and ready but adequate for our needs and the targets were up the hill towards the church and backed by woods above them. They were mounted above and to the back of a trench about eight feet deep and six feet wide. A sheet of corrugated iron formed a roof over the trench on the side farthest from the targets. There was room for two targets side by side. A public footpath passed through the woods at the back of the field so it was necessary to post guards at each end of the path whenever firing...


